The Evangelical Voyeur

A pastor filmed a man showering. All hell broke loose.

In early January 2017, a pastor at The Village Church in Fort Worth, Texas was showering at the home of another pastor from the church. He noticed an iPhone peeking out from a folded towel. Was he being filmed? Opening its video library, he saw there were four more videos of him showering on previous occasions. Whhaaaat? A later police report reads: “When confronted about the video Anthony advised he struggled with same sex attraction.”

Dr. Anthony Moore, 37-year-old, was until that point a rising star in Evangelical Christianity. Months before, he’d spoken to the ultra-conservative Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood on the need for women to expose abusers. He hadn’t said anything about men—but the showering pastor knew what to do. He told the church, and Moore was fired, publicly called “unfit for ministry,” owing to “grievous, immoral actions against adult member.”

He was given some hope, though, for redeeming himself—after “deep healing and strong counseling for an extended period of time.” This would be biblical counseling, i.e. the idea that another application of correct Evangelical theology would fix his ‘sin’ problem.